Defending libraries – new video blog at the New Statesman

Mary Warnock, Blake Morrison and south London residents take action against library closures.

Across the country, 5 February saw read-ins at dozens of libraries threatened with closure. I managed to film four of them in south London, along the way encountering Mary Warnock, Lucy Mangan, Blake Morrison, a lot of angry and articulate local residents, the duo Sly & Reggie, and the University of Strategic Optimism.